Yea, Sony?

Cable and tel­cos side with Com­cast in FCC Bit­Tor­rent dis­pute. From ArsTech­ni­ca: But oth­er parts of the pri­vate sec­tor have sent the FCC urgent requests for pro­tec­tion from poten­tial­ly unfair ISP behav­ior. Sony Elec­tron­ics, which now offers a wide vari­ety of legal con­tent for its web-enabled TV sets, wrote to the Com­mis­sion on Feb­ru­ary 13… Con­tin­ue read­ing Yea, Sony?

Weeks Roll By

It’s a tired cliché of blog­ging: apol­o­giz­ing for not post­ing in so long. The excus­es are always the same, and this is no dif­fer­ent. There has sim­ply been too much going on here take any time to write down [or type — ed.]. The Job I start­ed my new job at the begin­ning of Jan­u­ary (before… Con­tin­ue read­ing Weeks Roll By

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Classic Unboxing P@rn

For those of you who could­n’t get enough of my iMac and TiVo unbox­ing, let alone the radio inter­view I did the top­ic of unbox­ing porn, feast your eyes on this: the unbox­ing pho­tos of a clas­sic Apple //c com­put­er. Is it me or did it just get a lit­tle warm in here?

For The Last Time: The Plane Takes Off!

So, after months and months of online dis­cus­sion, Myth­busters Jamie and Adam put the physics where the rub­ber meets the road. Lit­er­al­ly. Almost two years ago, I (and most of the inter­net, it seems) saw a thought ques­tion at Kottke.org regard­ing an air­plane on a giant con­vey­or belt. If the belt moved the exact same speed… Con­tin­ue read­ing For The Last Time: The Plane Takes Off!

Happy Christmas, 2007

While it’s not exact­ly the rea­son for the sea­son, watch­ing Angela rock out to her new copy of Gui­tar Hero III — Leg­ends of Rock (Wii) in her PJ’s is a pret­ty good rea­son to love Christ­mas morn­ing. That kind of sums up the Christ­mas we’re hav­ing here in Rich­mond this year. We’ve been just… Con­tin­ue read­ing Hap­py Christ­mas, 2007

What I’d Like To See Happen With The Apple iPhone

Ini­tial­ly, Angela was pret­ty excit­ed about the Apple iPhone when we watched Steve Job’s pre­sen­ta­tion on the day of it’s announce­ment. The abil­i­ty to have all of her elec­tron­ics in one easy-to-han­­dle device was very appeal­ing to her, even with the high price tag and required cell provider switch (which we did, with some regret… Con­tin­ue read­ing What I’d Like To See Hap­pen With The Apple iPhone

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Beatles Versus Led Zepplin

I always though the only things the Bea­t­les and Led Zep­plin had in com­mon was that they were both genius, Eng­lish rock bands who had a pen­chant for mis­spelling. While that is prob­a­bly still true, what would it have sound like had The Bea­t­les writ­ten “Stair­way to Heav­en?” Well, it might have sound like this: That’s… Con­tin­ue read­ing Bea­t­les Ver­sus Led Zepplin

Ed Coleman Leaving Gateway After Acer Acquisition

CEO (and cousin) Edward Cole­man will leave Gate­way at the end of Jan­u­ary, Acer’s Rudi Schmi­dlei­th­n­er will be tak­ing over the inte­gra­tion of Acer and Gate­way after this year’s acqui­si­tion. Well, here’s hop­ing that Edward and his fam­i­ly move back East. I sure look for­ward to talk­ing to him some­time about his expe­ri­ences there.